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English translation: gaze wander
| 17:03 Nov 29, 2021 |
| Turkish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Linguistics | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Jahan Atabay | ||||||
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| 5 | Eye shifting |
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| 5 | gaze wander |
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| 4 | sliding of the eyes |
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13 mins confidence: 
sliding of the eyes Explanation: I think you can translate this literally: Elif's eyes slid from the shopkeeper .... to the snow falling outside. |
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4 hrs confidence:
Eye shifting Explanation: Bu tanımı kullanıyorum. |
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14 hrs confidence:
gaze wander Explanation: Elif'in gözleri saatin içine isim yazan dükkan sahibinden, eşyalara, oradan boş sokağa, dışarıda yağan kara kayar. Elif let her gaze wander from the shopkeeper around the room (furniture), the empty street and the snow falling outside. 4[intransitive] (of a person's eyes) to move slowly from looking at one thing to looking at another thing or in other directions She let her gaze wander. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/americ... My gaze wandered to the still-functioning hydroelectric dam, which brought the first cars (ls purmeiros carros, if my Mirandese is correct) to the village ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 hrs (2021-11-30 07:11:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Elif'in gözleri saatin içine isim yazan dükkan sahibinden, eşyalara, oradan boş sokağa, dışarıda yağan kara kayar. Elif's gaze wandered from the shopkeeper writing a name on the clock around the room (furniture), the empty street and the snow falling outside. Bir alternatif. Kolay gelsin! Example sentence(s):
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/wander https://ludwig.guru/s/my+gaze+wandered |
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